slaughter
英 ['slɔːtə]
美 ['slɔtɚ]
- vt. 屠宰，屠殺；殺戮；使慘敗
- n. 屠宰，屠殺；殺戮；消滅
- n. (Slaughter)人名；(英)斯勞特
助記提示
1. slay => slaught- => slaughter.
2. slaughter―― 死+ 狂笑+人. 想想日本鬼子邊殺人邊笑的感覺.在大屠殺 vt.&n.屠殺， 屠宰
3. 詞源：slay-屠殺，聯想：sl-死拉死拉地，整詞諧音“死老多”
中文詞源
slaughter 屠宰，宰殺，屠殺來自 slay,屠宰，宰殺，-ghter,名詞後綴，比較 laughter.引申比喻義屠殺。
英文詞源
- slaughter
- slaughter: [13] Slaughter was borrowed from Old Norse *slahtr, which went back to the same prehistoric Germanic base (*slakh- ‘strike’) that produced English slay. Old English appears to have had its own version of the word, *slæht, which survived into the 17th century as slaught. This forms the second syllable of onslaught [17], where it replaced the -slag in the borrowing from Middle Dutch aenslag (literally ‘onstriking’).
=> onslaught, slay - slaughter (n.)
- c. 1300, "killing of a cattle or sheep for food, killing of a person," from a Scandinavian *slahtr, akin to Old Norse slatr "a butchering, butcher meat," slatra "to slaughter," slattr "a mowing" from Proto-Germanic *slukhtis, related to Old Norse sla "to strike" (see slay (v.)) + formative suffix (as in laugh/laughter). Meaning "killing of a large number of persons in battle" is attested from mid-14c. Old English had slieht "stroke, slaughter, murder, death; animals for slaughter;" as in sliehtswyn "pig for killing."
- slaughter (v.)
- 1530s, "butcher an animal for market," from slaughter (n.). Meaning "slay wantonly, ruthlessly, or in great numbers" is from 1580s. Related: Slaughtered; slaughtering.
雙語例句
- 1. The annual slaughter of wildlife in Italy is horrific.
- 在意大利，每年大量捕殺野生動物的現象令人震驚。
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- 2. The barbaric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
- 對鯨的野蠻屠殺既不必要也不人道。
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- 3. We follow their every word like lambs to the slaughter.
- 我們對他們完全言聽計從。
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- 4. The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
- 屠殺鯨魚是沒有必要的也是不人道的。
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- 5. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter.
- 喂肥牛群以宰殺。
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